Transcript for Chiwetel Ejiofor Shares Serendipitous Story About Deceased Father

Always and on me asking guests to do snippet of some song that means something your dad wrote songs to -- and yet. Is there a little bit of something that he wrote you can do what he wrote in in Eva says I don't. Because I think -- -- that but my. But -- is embarrassed really isn't there you know but he he and he wrote a lot of songs about them. About the craziness of you who think one of them quoted to Anchorage. And and it's it's kind of beautiful sounds of the cauldron. You've -- them. -- -- -- About the sensitive hustle and bustle and the craziness of existing and I remember being on -- and in Nigeria when I was the kid. And that we set on the bus we might -- my uncle. And a -- about fourteen and the bus was stuck in traffic and Lagos and and then people -- -- -- -- my -- -- -- -- just about the craziness that was going -- And then -- my uncle told them that I was -- it was just a wonderful moment of that. Song and the reality of that in Nigeria and this connected to my -- to the music. Clinton in your head. And you can't give me one little things of that even in bad. Well that's the -- and that's -- that's good phrase it's just recently awarded to his company.

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